Workshop2011:agenda

The White Book including a brief summary of the talks and the discussions held during the workshop is available here.

Archive and recordings of the talks

All talks are available as PDFs. Video and audio recording is available under rec link. Note, some of the videos are not available or a bit corrupt due to technical issues.

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	session	title	name	time (with discussion)
Wednesday
10:00		Welcome	STH/LW	10m
10:10	Gaia	Gaia overview rec	Floor van Leeuven	20m
10:30		Gaia Alerts overview (Prezi on Gaia Alerts) rec	STH/LW	30m
11:00	coffee			30m
11:30		Gaia Archive Preparations rec	Nicholas Walton	15m
11:45		Gaia Spectro Science Alerts rec	Paola di Mateo	20m
12:05		Asteroids with Gaia rec	Paolo Tanga	20m
12:35	lunch			95m
14:00	Special	What shall we follow today? rec	Ashish Mahabal	30m
14:30		Skyalert: Rapid Transients for you and your Robot rec	Roy Williams	60m
15:30	tea			30m
16:00	Science	Variable stars with Gaia rec	Laurent Eyer	20m
16:20		(Gaia) Supernovae: overview and follow-up rec	Massimo Turrato	30m
16:50		Prediction of Astrometric Microlensing Events for the Gaia Mission rec	Svea Proft	20m
17:10		Microlensing (Evans, Wyrzykowski) rec	Wyn Evans/Lukasz Wyrzykowski	20m
17:30 (moved to Thu))		The detectability of GRB optical counterparts with Gaia rec	Jure Japelj/Andreja Gomboc	20m
17:50 (moved to Thu)		Study of high-z Universe with Gaia, Spectroscopic Alerts & Czech Gaia CU7 support by RTs rec	Rene Hudec	20m
18:10	end of day 1
19:00	DINNER at St.John's Chop House
Thursday
09:00	Facilities	Ground Based Observations for Gaia (GBOG)'s role in Gaia Science Alerts rec	George Seabroke	20m
09:20		Potential follow-up of GAIA alerts from the SONG and MiNDSTEp networks of telescopes. rec	Uffe Jorgensen	20m
09:40		Galactic transients; linking GAIA alerts with multi-wavelength surveys rec	Danny Steeghs	20m
10:00		Java Robotic Telescope for Gaia Alert System rec	Jan Soldan	20m
10:20		"Pi of the Sky" - wide field search for optical transients rec	Marcin Sokolowski	20m
10:40		Gloria - a network of telescopes which can take on some of Gaia alerts rec	Lech Mankiewicz	20m
11:00	coffee			30m
11:30 (not presented)		The La Palma 0.5m Robotic Telescope	Stuart Littlefair	20m
11:50 (not presented)		Transients detected in the WASP survey	Peter Wheatley	20m
12:10		The LCOGT network rec	Yannis Tsapras	20m
12:30	WORKSHOP PHOTO			5m
12:35	lunch			85m
14:00		The Liverpool Telescope and Gaia rec	Iain Steele	20m
14:20		STILT (Small Telescopes Installed at LT) instruments rec	Neil Mawson	20m
14:40		Iranian National Observatory Project	Habib Khosroshahi	20m
15:00		Catalina Realtime Transient Survey (CRTS) rec	Ashish Mahabal	30m
15:30	tea			30m
16:00		Lucky Imaging Astrometric follow-up rec	Craig Mackay	20m
16:20		Overview of European and French spectroscopic facilities rec	Michel Dennefeld	20m
16:40		Italian facilities rec	Gisella Clementini	20m
17:00		Overview of other facilities (Swiss, Israeli, Polish, Austrian) rec	Lukasz Wyrzykowski	20m
17:20		Discussion rec	all	40m
18:00	end of day 2
Friday
09:00	Facilities	SAAO facilities and instruments rec	Patricia Whitelock	20m
09:20		The ESO Public spectroscopic survey of the Transient Universe rec	Stephen Smartt	30m
09:50		Gaia-FUN-SSO: a ground-based follow-up for Solar System Objects rec	William Thuillot	30m
10:20		Engaging with the public rec	Gerry Gilmore	20m
10:40	Discussion	Getting organized rec	all	20m
11:00	coffee			30m
11:30	Discussion	Getting organized and Summary	all	60m
12:30	lunch			90m
14:00	end of day 3